potation

英语

词源

源自中古英語 potacion，源自古法語 potacion，源自拉丁語 pōtātiō。

名词

potation (可數和不可數，複數 potations)

1. (常用复数) 喝，饮
   • 1820，沃尔特·司各特，第VI章，收錄於艾凡赫，第II卷，爱丁堡： […] Archibald Constable and Co.；伦敦：Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […]，→OCLC，90頁：

     […] perhaps his nocturnal potations, prevented him from recognizing accents which were tolerably familiar to him— […]

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2. 饮料，(尤指) 酒
   • 1749，Henry Fielding，「Containing five Pages of Paper」，收錄於The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling [棄兒湯姆·瓊斯的歷史]，第II卷，London：A[ndrew] Millar, […]，→OCLC，「book IV」，第2頁：

     For as this is the Liquor of modern Hiſtorians, nay, perhaps their Muſe, if we may believe the Opinion of Butler, who attributes Inſpiration to Ale, it ought likewiſe to be the Potation of their Readers; ſince every Book ought to be read with the ſame Spirit, and in the ſame Manner, as it is writ.

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参见

• libation

异序词

• optation